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I accidentally stumbled on to UC San Diego Digital Collections website while looking up for something else. There are about 1000-ish old maps, e.g. nautical charts which may be useful to add names of hydrographical features. Looks fine to use, for example, this nautical chart is in Public Domain. However, this particular bit of statement has baffled me:
The Public Domain label is clear cut, but is there any other legal implications before I can start using them? |
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In general the licence/copyright information for maps distributed by US institutions can not be trusted and you need to investigate what the actual source of the map(s) was and if it was produced from original survey or if it is simply a re-labelled work from a third party. The easy way to find out is to ask the distributor to warrant that the licence information is correct and indemnify you against any claims from third parties. Clicking through, it shows the agency of the US government that released the map. If released by a US government agency it is public domain. And a further click though shows other maps they have from that agency some of which are old enough (pre-1923) that they would be in the public domain regardless of the original copyright. My concern with using them for getting hydrological names is that they may have the US name for the feature and not the local name.
(02 May '17, 15:48)
n76
Hi stf, use the name:us=name tag then and hope or make a note to stimulate other mappers to add the local names.
(02 May '17, 16:20)
Hendrikklaas
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What does it say at the bottom of the page? "From British and Netherlands government survey", likely these were simply maps that were copied, so while the US government might not have any rights in the maps, others may well have some.
(02 May '17, 17:08)
SimonPoole ♦
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@Hendrikklaas, for names in English, one has to use name:en . We do not use country codes in combination with name
(03 May '17, 06:55)
escada
(re language vs country code) http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/267762522 shows one way to do it when the same language (but different locales) have different names.
(03 May '17, 08:40)
SomeoneElse ♦
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